When presidential candidate Frank Kabanga Bulira of the Revolutionary People’s Party claimed that Kumasi is a region in Nigeria during the November 30 Presidential Debate, moderator Arnold Segawa was quick to point out that he was wrong: Kumasi is in Ghana.
Mr Bulira smiled sheepishly. But as the debate progressed, it was Mr Segawa who stumbledโthough viewers never noticed.
๐ด Claim
While asking National Unity Platform’s candidate Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, aka Bobi Wine, how he would tackle corruption, Mr Segawa claimed that Uganda has a Corruption Perceptions Index. He went on to say that Uganda’s score on the index is 35.
๐ด What OJ-UGANDA checked
- We reviewed Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) scores for Uganda from 2012, when the Berlin-based agency changed the scoring methodology and scale after 2011. Before 2012, the CPI was measured on a scale of 0 to 10. Zero meant high levels of corruption; 10 meant almost zero corruption.
- We checked all the scores for Uganda and whether the score of 35 that Mr Segawa claimed would also be on the current 0-100 scale. This makes the 2012โ2024 period the only relevant one for debunking the claim.
- We checked whether Uganda has a separate Corruption Perceptions Index of its own.
๐ด What we found
๐ด Verdict
The claim is false.
๐ด Conclusion
The two claims Mr Segawa made while moderating the Presidential Debate are totally false. Uganda’s score on the Corruption Perceptions Index is 26, not 35. Uganda does not have a Corruption Perceptions Index of its own. It is ranked on Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index.
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